CMS is expanding the definition of âemergency departmentâ under EMTALA Hospital-based urgent care clinics may have EMTALA duty even though those clinics are not equipped to stabilize true emergency medical conditions.
Hemiparesis is unilateral paresis, that is, weakness of the entire left or right side of the body (hemi- means half). Hemiplegia is, in its most severe form, complete paralysis of half of the body. Hemiparesis and hemiplegia can be caused by different medical conditions, including congenital causes, trauma, tumors, or stroke.
The type, severity and intensity of hemiparesis symptoms depends upon the location of brain where the stroke occurred, injury happened or a tumour had grown. Generally, the left hemisphere injury of human brain results in the weakness of right side and the right side brain injury hamper the left side movement.